‘Cross this land tonight … further down the track

While reflecting as I put together the previous post, I couldn’t escape thinking about the song I wrote last year for Frontier Services’ 100th anniversary worship celebration – ‘Cross this land tonight. We assisted Ted Egan as he sang it during the service.
Dale and I has two occasions out at Charleville this past week to share it.

Here’s a storybirthed by pioneersBy Flynn, McKay and moreThe sharing of Christ’s lovewith inland’s heartBy air, by road, at station homeacross this great south landFrontiers touched One hundred years so far

Right across this sunburnt countryMarked by droughts and flooding rainswith faces, places off the beaten track:in mercy’s nameGod’s outback mission keeps onbringing hope and health and lightGod’s “mantle of safety”‘cross this land tonight

It’s the story of special peopleresilient; of rugged hopeYet times comewhen resilience struggles too.When remoteness seems to overwhelm;community comes hard“Flynn of the Inland’s”legacy shines through

And the story journeys onwardsWe join hundreds serving nowWe offer hand and heart and voice; God’s graceWith the outback people we will standWith their spirit, we rejoiceWe celebrate the nation’s frontier voice